Table 1 Continuous classification of allomaternal care behaviours: Averaged parameter estimates and their relative explanatory importance for female CV body mass (NÂ =Â 87). Gestation length and neonatal mass were excluded to reduce multicollinearity between predictors. Numbers in bold indicate predictors whose confidence intervals of their effect exclude zero
From: Getting fat or getting help? How female mammals cope with energetic constraints on reproduction
Predictors | Relative importance of predictors | Model averaging estimatesa | 95% CI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Intercept | Â | Â | 0.126 | (0.100, 0.153) |
Provisioning |  | 1.00 | −0.040 | (−0.043, −0.036) |
Protecting |  | 0.06 | −0.001 | (−0.002, 0.001) |
Carrying |  | 0.07 | 0.003 | (−0.004, 0.010) |
Communal nesting |  | 0.06 | 0.001 | (−0.002, 0.004) |
Allonursing |  | 0.06 | 0.005 | (−0.010, 0.021) |
Log mean body mass |  | 0.44 | −0.006 | (−0.010, −0.002) |
Provenance | captive | 0.80 | na | na |
wild | 0.025 | (0.017, 0.032) | ||
Substrate use | terrestrial | 1.00 | na | na |
arboreal | −0.045 | (−0.050, −0.041) | ||
Number of months |  | 0.53 | −0.001 | (−0.001, 0.001) |
Inclusion of reproductive females |  | 0.69 | −0.019 | (−0.030, −0.008) |
Log litter size | Â | 0.56 | 0.027 | (0.013, 0.041) |
Log weaning age | Â | na | 0 | 0 |